APN 9-16

Question 1

CONSONANCE

Answer 1

repetition of identical consonant sounds within two or more words in close proximity:
boot/beat/best/brag, or even compound words, fulfill, ping-pong

Question 2

CARICATURE

Answer 2

descriptive writing that greatly exaggerates a specific feature of a person’s appearance
or a facet of personality.

Question 3

APOSTROPHE

Answer 3

usually in poetry, but sometimes in POSTROPHE prose: the device of calling out to an imaginary, dead, or absent person or to a place, thing, or personified abstraction.

Question 4

CACOPHONY

Answer 4

also referred to as DISSONANCE…hard, awkward, or dissonant sounds used deliberately in poetry or prose; the opposite of EUPHONY.

Question 5

CONNOTATION-DENOTATION

Answer 5

connotation has a positive meaning and it makes you feel good about the word or sentence. denotation has the opposite affect, making you have a negative feeling towards the phrase.

Question 6

ENUMERATION:

Answer 6

Enumeration is a rhetorical device used for listing the details or a process of mentioning words or phrases step by step. In fact, it is a type of amplification or division in which a subject is further distributed into components or parts. Writers use this to clarify and detail understanding.

Question 7

COHERENCE

Answer 7

the “quality” of a piece of writing in which all the parts contribute to the development
of the central idea/theme or organizing principle.

Question 8

APHORISM

Answer 8

a short, often witty, statement of a principle or truth about life. Benjamin Franklin was
somewhat famous for these in Poor Richard’s Almanac, e.g. “The early bird gets the worm.”